{"id":2014,"date":"2015-04-30T11:48:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T10:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/?p=2014"},"modified":"2022-08-23T12:59:44","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T11:59:44","slug":"visitbritain-chief-urges-governments-to-act-on-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2015\/04\/visitbritain-chief-urges-governments-to-act-on-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"VisitBritain chief urges governments to act on sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>(Travel Weekly) &#8220;<\/strong>VisitBritain chairman Christopher Rodrigues has called for governments to standardise reporting on sustainability across the travel and tourism sector.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the World Tourism Forum in Lucerne on Friday, Rodrigues said: &#8220;This is a wonderful industry, but it contains the seeds of its own destruction.\u00a0&#8220;The challenge we keep coming back to is that we need more sustainable tourism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>3 Key quotes from the Forum:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1:\u00a0Rodrigues: &#8220;If governments got behind standardised reporting and insisted on its adoption we would start to see more sustainability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>2:\u00a0Beyond Green Travel chief executive Costas Christ\u00a0said: &#8220;We have to recognise limits to growth. The sky is not the limit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>3:\u00a0TripAdvisor director of industry relations Helena Egan said: &#8220;Sometimes we make like everything has to change now. 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